Shoe



Jan 10, l939- A. J. BRAUER ET Al. 2,143,539

SHOE

Filed Sept. l5, 1956 Patented Jan. 10, 1939 SHOE Arthur J. Brauer,Webster Groves, and Frederick l. Wagner, St. Louis, Mo. Y

Application September 16, 1936, Serial No. 100,968

This invention relates generally to shoes and particularly to theconstruction of a shoe having 6 Claims.

a tongue constructed and arranged `to relieve discomfort at the throatof the shoe.

In the application of the features of the Wagner .Patent No. 2,005,071to shoes of the Oxford type which embody a tongue, difficulty has beenexperiencedin arranging the parts of the shoe so as to prevent thetongue from interfering with, or minimizing, the eifect of the yieldablethroat construction. This problem has also been encountered inconnection with shoes, the throat portions of which were renderedyieldable in accordance with other well known and conventional methodsbut heretofore the assembly of the tongue of such shoes together withthe upper section in the region of the throat line has tended to obviatethe benefits which would otherwise have been derived from such resilientor yieldable throat constructions.

The object of the presentinvention, generally stated, is to provide ashoe having a tongue so constructed and connected to the adjacent shoeparts that yieldability at the throat line may be secured.

drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a side View of the forepart of a shoe constructed inaccordance with the present invention, part being broken away to revealthe relation of the parts in section.

Figure 2 is a plan view of a part of a vamp assembly employed inaccordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the assembly shown in Figure 2.

In accordance with the present invention, a shoe, such for instance asone of the Oxford type which is provided with a tongue, may have itsthroat portion rendered yieldable or resilent in any suitable manner as,for example, by treating it as set forth in the Wagner Patent No.

In accordance with the present invention, however, Where such yieldablethroat features are to be employed in shoes having tongues, the tongueis connected to the outside vamp sections only at points removed fromthe yieldable throat line.

For instance, in accordance with one embodiment the tongue member isarranged to extend both forwardly and rearwardly of the throat line butis not directly connected to the outside upper section which has beenrendered yieldable at the throat in the yieldable region. On the otherhand, in order to secure the tongue member in position it may beconnected directly to the outside vamp section beyond the extremities ofthe yieldable region in the latter, or, it may be connected to thelining for the vamp and the lining in turn connected to the vamp so asto provide for substantial flexibility and movement between the tonguemember and the outside upper section, such as the vamp which has beenmade yieldable at the throat, and thereby avoid rigidity which, to someextent at least, would mitigate the effect of treating the outside vampsection in accordance with the Wagner Patent No. 2,005,071.

Referring now particularly to the drawing for an illustrative embodimentof the present invention a shoe of the Oxford type is shown in which avamp section i is connected to quarter sections 2. The quarter sections2 are provided with lace stays 3 and a tongue 4 is arranged to underlaplace stays 3 in the usual manner so as to provide an Oxford.

In the embodiment shown, vamp I is treated in accordance with the WagnerPatent No.

2,005,071 so as to provide a yieldable region at f" the throat line 5thereof. As pointed out in said Wagner patent, this may be accomplishedby providing a tab at the throat line which may be folded under toembrace a piece of elastic 6 and be slit, as shown at l, across the foldin order V7 to provide ample yieldability.

In the embodiment shown the vamp is provided with a lining 8 which maybe of any suitable material, either textile or leather, but for thepurpose of illustration the lining 8 will be considered as textilematerial. As shown clearly in Figure 3, lining 8 terminates ahead ofthroat line 5, the upper terminus of lining 8 being shown in dottedlines and indicated as 9 in Figure 3.

Tongue piece t may be connected to lining 8 iii) tongue member and theoutside vamp section immediately at the resilient region of the latter.

In the eventl that lining 8 is made of leather, or other materialsuitable for forming the tongue, or tongue lining, it will be understoodthat lining 8 may include the tongue lining as a part thereof and henceconnection of this member with the outside vamp by lines of stitching Ilonly may be required.

In order to render the shoe construction as resilient as feasible in theregion of the throat and to further insure that the tongue constructionwill not interfere with the yieldability of the outside member, thetongue may be provided with a series of longitudinally extending slitsl2 arranged in sidewise relation at the part thereof which, in thefinished shoe, will lie directly beneath the yieldable throat region 5.The provision of such slits permits the tongue member ll to stretchlaterally at that point upon yielding of the outside vamp member l and,when the slits are arranged, as shown in the drawing, they are notdiscernible by casual observation of the shoe because of the fact thatthey are substantially concealed by the, overlapping part 5.

From the foregoing description it should be apparent that the presentinvention accomplishes its objects and provides a shoe of the typehaving a tongue wherein the throat portion of the exterior uppermaterials may be treated in order to provide yieldability in thatregion. Furthermore the tongue of the shoe may be so arranged that itdoes not interfere with the action or function of the yieldable outsidepart.

While in the foregoing description a disclosure of one illustrativeembodiment of the present invention has been given, it is not to beunderstood that the invention is limited to the precise arrangement ofparts hereinbefore described or shown in the accompanying drawing, but,on the contrary, it is realized that various modifications will presentthemselves to those skilled in the art without departing from the spiritof this invention. It is to be distinctly understood, therefore, thatsuch modiiications and the use of such individual features andsubcombinations of features as do not depart from the spirit of thisinvention are, although not specically described herein, contemplated byand within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

l. A shoe comprising, an outside vamp section, a continuous vamp lining,and a tongue medially connected to the lining, said outside vamp beingfree of connections with the lining and tongue medially of the latter.

2. A shoe comprising, an outside vamp section arranged to provide athroat line, said vamp being yieldable at the throat line, a continuouslining for said vamp, said lining being cut to provide a throat lowerthan the throat line of said outside section, said lining beingconnected to said vamponly at regions remote from the middle of thethroat line.

3. A shoe comprising, an outside vamp section arranged to provide athroat line, said vamp being yieldable at the throat line, liningmaterial for the outside vamp terminating short of said throat line, andconnected to the vamp only at regions remote from the middle of thethroat line and a tongue piece connected to said lining adjacent thethroat thereof but disconnected from said outside vamp section adjacentthe throat thereof.

4. A shoe comprising, an outside vamp section arranged to provide athroat line, said vamp being yieldable at the throat line, a tonguehaving a part underlapping said throat line but disconnected from thevamp thereat, and a lining member connecting said tongue to said vamp inregions remote from the middle of said throat line.

5. A shoe comprising, an outside vamp section arranged to provide athroat line, said vamp being yieldable at the throat line, a tonguehaving a part underlapping said throat line, said tongue having a seriesof longitudinally extending slits adjacent the throat line, and meansconnecting said tongue to said vamp only in regions remote from themiddle of said throat line.

6. A shoe comprising an upper having a tongue piece extending forwardlyand rearwardly of the throat of the shoe, said tongue piece having aseries of longitudinally extending slits arranged in substantiallyparallel relation adjacent the throat, and means connecting said tonguepiece to the upper only at points substantially spaced from the throatmiddle.

ARTHUR J. BRAUER. FREDERICK P. WAGNER.

